[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Tuesday that two former lobbyists may use classified documents in their defense against charges [case materials] under the 1917 Espionage Act [18 USC 793 text]. Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, previously with the American Israel
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[JURIST] Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Angel Moratinos [official profile] on Tuesday indicated his country's willingness to accept Guantanamo detainees [JURIST news archive] during his meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [official profile; BBC profile] in Washington DC. No specific details were set out during the meeting,
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[JURIST] Internet search company Google, Inc. [corporate website] will apply to join a European Commission (EC) [official website] antitrust proceeding against Microsoft [corporate website], accusing the software giant of hindering competition, according to a message from Google Vice President Sundar Pichai [text] posted to the company's official blog Tuesday. On
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[JURIST] Colombian president Alvaro Uribe [official profile, in Spanish] on Monday denied ordering Department of Administrative Security (DAS) [official website, in Spanish] agents to conduct wiretaps on politicians, judges and journalists. Journalists from the Colombian magazine Semana [official website, in Spanish] were the first to publish the allegations, and have
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[JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday urged the Guatemalan Congress [official website, in Spanish] to approve a law establishing a National Search Commission for the Persons Forcibly and Involuntarily Disappeared. The proposed legislation [text, PDF, in Spanish] was presented to the Guatemalan Congress in January 2007, and was an important
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[JURIST] A Paris appeals court on Tuesday overturned the 2007 terrorism convictions of five French citizens who had been questioned by French officials while detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. The court held that counter-terrorism agents from the French national security service DST [official website, in French] could not
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[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official profile] urged sweeping reform of the American financial regulatory system in a speech [text] on his economic revitalization plan to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. His address, which came less than a week after he signed into law [JURIST report] the $787
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